Tony Dalton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Dalton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Dalton |
| SIGNATURE | DALTON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4510-8923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Many of us will find it’s a hard task
In June 1865, The Soldier’s Friend organized a penmanship contest open only to Union veterans whose combat injuries had required them to relearn penmanship with their left hands. This essay considers this corpus of handwriting exemplars for two purposes: the study of letter writing and disability identity and the pedagogical potential of those letters. This essay is interested in genre theory’s insight about what Margaretta Jolly and Liz Stanley …
The abduction of Lady Grange to St Kilda
A Hanoverian supporter, Lady Grange was kidnapped by her husband, Lord Lovat and others in 1732 for threatening to denounce their Jacobite sympathies. After eight years of captivity in Heisker and St Kilda, news of her imprisonment finally reached Edinburgh in December 1740. Even then her captors were able to thwart an attempt of rescue and move the unfortunate woman like so much unwanted baggage from St Kilda to Assynt, Harris, and Skye, where s…
Making Social Policy in Australia
The Final Weeks of Service and Wreck of PS Comet , 1820
PS Comet, Europe’s first commercial steamship, launched in 1812, was rebuilt to new dimensions in 1819 with improved machinery, and wrecked in 1820. These facts are known, but not very much accurate detail exists about its wrecking. Many books and articles on the Comet repeat the same basic information, in some cases with minor variations and ambiguities which only cloud the issue. This article focuses on the last weeks of its service in December…
Transition to low carbon? An analysis of socio-technical change in housing renovation
Across the westernised world, concerns about climate change and resource scarcity point to the need for widescale changes in housing renovation. Through the exploration of social interactions of eco-renovation businesses on the ground, the paper presents evidence for the emergence of an ‘eco-renovation niche’ consisting of both traditional and new types of housing industry businesses. However, this niche is not clearly bounded, stable or homogeno…
Disability and mortgage default
Debates on human rights and discrimination regarding housing and disability need to emphasise community care and inclusion as principles for improving policy. A qualitative study of Australian mortgage default reveals special difficulties for households with a member with a disability; that is, illness, impairment or injury limiting everyday activities and enduring for several months. Interviews showed that such households adopted similar strateg…
Green Renovations
Undertaking home renovation is complex and traumatic, but remains a ubiquitous phenomenon. Home renovators wishing to reduce their environmental impact encounter added layers of complexity. Increasingly, opportunities to improve a dwelling’s performance present themselves in the course of home renovations, giving rise to “green renovations”. Policy makers encourage green renovations through market mechanisms and rational response incentives. Yet …
Housing Policy Retrenchment
Housing policy has declined in importance relative to other areas of state policy-making in many Western countries. This paper seeks to understand why this has happened at a time when there has been a decline in the level of housing affordability and supply of affordable rental housing. It presents an argument that a way of understanding this policy retrenchment, through a comparative analysis of Australian and Canadian housing systems, is to con…
A wasting resource
Public housing is one of few sources of low‐income rental housing in inner‐city Melbourne, Australia. Most of this housing is easily identifiable high‐rise estates. Some of these estates have become established centres of heroin dealing and drug use. This has had significant consequences: applicants reject offers of housing on the estates; tenants apply for transfers; and housing officers face workplace occupational health and safety issues. In s…
Green Renovations
Undertaking home renovation is complex and traumatic, but remains a ubiquitous phenomenon. Home renovators wishing to reduce their environmental impact encounter added layers of complexity. Increasingly, opportunities to improve a dwelling’s performance present themselves in the course of home renovations, giving rise to “green renovations”. Policy makers encourage green renovations through market mechanisms and rational response incentives. Yet …
Housing Policy Retrenchment
Housing policy has declined in importance relative to other areas of state policy-making in many Western countries. This paper seeks to understand why this has happened at a time when there has been a decline in the level of housing affordability and supply of affordable rental housing. It presents an argument that a way of understanding this policy retrenchment, through a comparative analysis of Australian and Canadian housing systems, is to con…
A wasting resource
Public housing is one of few sources of low‐income rental housing in inner‐city Melbourne, Australia. Most of this housing is easily identifiable high‐rise estates. Some of these estates have become established centres of heroin dealing and drug use. This has had significant consequences: applicants reject offers of housing on the estates; tenants apply for transfers; and housing officers face workplace occupational health and safety issues. In s…
Transition to low carbon? An analysis of socio-technical change in housing renovation
Across the westernised world, concerns about climate change and resource scarcity point to the need for widescale changes in housing renovation. Through the exploration of social interactions of eco-renovation businesses on the ground, the paper presents evidence for the emergence of an ‘eco-renovation niche’ consisting of both traditional and new types of housing industry businesses. However, this niche is not clearly bounded, stable or homogeno…
Disability and mortgage default
Debates on human rights and discrimination regarding housing and disability need to emphasise community care and inclusion as principles for improving policy. A qualitative study of Australian mortgage default reveals special difficulties for households with a member with a disability; that is, illness, impairment or injury limiting everyday activities and enduring for several months. Interviews showed that such households adopted similar strateg…
A wasting resource
Public housing is one of few sources of low‐income rental housing in inner‐city Melbourne, Australia. Most of this housing is easily identifiable high‐rise estates. Some of these estates have become established centres of heroin dealing and drug use. This has had significant consequences: applicants reject offers of housing on the estates; tenants apply for transfers; and housing officers face workplace occupational health and safety issues. In s…
Housing Policy Retrenchment
Housing policy has declined in importance relative to other areas of state policy-making in many Western countries. This paper seeks to understand why this has happened at a time when there has been a decline in the level of housing affordability and supply of affordable rental housing. It presents an argument that a way of understanding this policy retrenchment, through a comparative analysis of Australian and Canadian housing systems, is to con…
Green Renovations
Undertaking home renovation is complex and traumatic, but remains a ubiquitous phenomenon. Home renovators wishing to reduce their environmental impact encounter added layers of complexity. Increasingly, opportunities to improve a dwelling’s performance present themselves in the course of home renovations, giving rise to “green renovations”. Policy makers encourage green renovations through market mechanisms and rational response incentives. Yet …
Disability and mortgage default
Debates on human rights and discrimination regarding housing and disability need to emphasise community care and inclusion as principles for improving policy. A qualitative study of Australian mortgage default reveals special difficulties for households with a member with a disability; that is, illness, impairment or injury limiting everyday activities and enduring for several months. Interviews showed that such households adopted similar strateg…
Transition to low carbon? An analysis of socio-technical change in housing renovation
Across the westernised world, concerns about climate change and resource scarcity point to the need for widescale changes in housing renovation. Through the exploration of social interactions of eco-renovation businesses on the ground, the paper presents evidence for the emergence of an ‘eco-renovation niche’ consisting of both traditional and new types of housing industry businesses. However, this niche is not clearly bounded, stable or homogeno…
Making Social Policy in Australia
The Final Weeks of Service and Wreck of PS Comet , 1820
PS Comet, Europe’s first commercial steamship, launched in 1812, was rebuilt to new dimensions in 1819 with improved machinery, and wrecked in 1820. These facts are known, but not very much accurate detail exists about its wrecking. Many books and articles on the Comet repeat the same basic information, in some cases with minor variations and ambiguities which only cloud the issue. This article focuses on the last weeks of its service in December…
“Many of us will find it’s a hard task
In June 1865, The Soldier’s Friend organized a penmanship contest open only to Union veterans whose combat injuries had required them to relearn penmanship with their left hands. This essay considers this corpus of handwriting exemplars for two purposes: the study of letter writing and disability identity and the pedagogical potential of those letters. This essay is interested in genre theory’s insight about what Margaretta Jolly and Liz Stanley …
The abduction of Lady Grange to St Kilda
A Hanoverian supporter, Lady Grange was kidnapped by her husband, Lord Lovat and others in 1732 for threatening to denounce their Jacobite sympathies. After eight years of captivity in Heisker and St Kilda, news of her imprisonment finally reached Edinburgh in December 1740. Even then her captors were able to thwart an attempt of rescue and move the unfortunate woman like so much unwanted baggage from St Kilda to Assynt, Harris, and Skye, where s…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Affordable housing (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Geography (2 works)